Naomi Watts

In 2015, Allentown native Amanda Seyfried appeared in supporting roles in four high-profile films, including "Ted 2" with Mark Wahlberg and Morgan Freeman; "While We're Young" with Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts and Adam Driver; and "Pan" with Hugh Jackman and Rooney Mara.

But it was her turn in "Love The Coopers" that really proved she could do a lot with very little.

Available this week on Blu-ray and DVD, "Coopers" (2015, Lionsgate, PG-13, $20) revolves around a big Pittsburgh brood coming together for a Christmas Eve celebration. Everybody, it seems, has a secret.

It's hard to imagine a movie with more Lehigh Valley connections than the new-to-DVD "While We're Young" (2015, Lionsgate, R, $20), the latest from writer/director Noah Baumbach ("The Squid and the Whale," "Frances Ha.")
The film stars two actors with...

"Zoolander 2" and "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" are among "the crop of cinematic crap in 2016" leading the 37th Annual Razzie Award nominations, with nine and eight nods, respectively.
The two films are up for worst picture, and worst prequel,...

BIRTHDAY GAL: Actress Naomi Watts was born in Shoreham, Kent, England, on this day in 1968. This birthday gal has received Oscar nominations for her performances in "The Impossible" and "21 Grams," respectively. Other film work includes roles in "Birdman:...

Based on its guest list, "Late Show With Stephen Colbert" is shaping up to be a lot like "Charlie Rose," but with more jokes.
As previously announced, Jeb Bush, George Clooney, Elon Musk and others will stop by during Colbert's premiere week, which...

Nicole Kidman donned a shower cap and kissed Naomi Watts on Tuesday night, making a statement not about sexuality but rather about her career.
Speaking at the Women in Film’s Crystal + Lucy Awards, the "Moulin Rouge!" actress talked about a role in a...

For all the boozed and abusive amusement provided by the great Bill Murray in the good-enough "St. Vincent," the moment I liked best was Naomi Watts as a pregnant Russian stripper, manhandling a vacuum across the Murray character's ancient carpet. In...

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — When Chris Tucker and Jon Voight are grooving side by side to Rick James' "Give It To Me, Baby," you know the surreal dream that is the Vanity Fair post-Oscars party is playing out again.
For many of the nominees and winners, the...

With a conspicuous diss of Kathryn Bigelow, the un-nominated director of “Zero Dark Thirty,” the Academy Awards nominations were announced Thursday morning.
“Zero Dark Thirty” was one of nine films given the best picture nomination nod. The others:...

Two vastly different films about the scourge of slavery in America, a thriller about the rescue of American hostages in Iran and a study of the dogged quest to capture one of the world's most wanted men -- Osama bin Laden -- were among the top nominees...

For Hollywood, awards season has stretched into a multi-event, multi-month marathon. But there's no doubt that for old-fashioned glamour, the Oscars take home the prize.
A few stars have tried extreme trends the night of the Academy Awards — think of...

We've had Johnny and June in "Walk the Line," Katharine Hepburn and Henry Fonda's grouchy old-timers in "On Golden Pond" and real-life marrieds Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton bickering their way through "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
But...